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A79008	A patterne for all, especially for noble and honourable persons, to teach them how to die nobly and honourably. Delivered in a sermon preached at the solemne interment of the corps of the Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick. Who aged 70 years 11. months, died April 19. And was honorably buried, May 1. 1658. at Felsted in Essex. By Edmund Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1658 (1658)	Wing C262; Thomason E947_1; ESTC R207615	31,046	52

you out of his hands and that you may every day enjoy the benefit of his Intercession Pray unto the holy Ghost that he would abide in you for ever and give you the earnest of your inheritance and seale you up unto the day of Redemption So much for the fourth inference Doctrine 5. That to dye in the true faith is a noble gallant blessed and happy ●anner of dying These all died in faith Herein especially consisted the happy condition of these godly Patriarks that they lived and dyed in the faith It is put down by way of commendation and left upon record as a patterne for us to learne to die by They died in the faith of the Messias expecting salvation by him only They died perswaded of the promises and embracing the Lord Jesus Looking waiting and confidently hoping for a City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God There is a double manner of dying 1. A dying in sin 2. A dying in faith 1. A dying in sin Of this we read John 8. 24. If you beleeve not that I am he ye shall dye in your sins This is a said manner of dying If any should desire me to give him a character of a man in a cursed condition I would answer He is one who is dead in sin while he lives and dies in his sins when he dies It is a happinesse to be dead to sin but to die in sin is misery unexpressible For he that dieth in his sins shall certainly go into everlasting damnation He that dies in his sins dies out of Christ and he that dieth out of Christ shall never go to Christ 2. A dying in faith This is a noble gallant and blessed manner of dying heaven it selfe beares witnesse to this Rev. 14. 13. I heard a voyce from heaven saying unto me write Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord that is united unto the Lord Jesus Christ by a true and a lively faith Such as these are happy if you will either beleeve a voyce from heaven or the voyce of the Spirit for it followeth in the text so saith the Spirit And they are blessed from the very instant of their death So it is in the same place from henceforth {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from that very minute for their souls go immediately to God to enjoy perfect and perpetual rest and happinesse and their works follow them It is a greater happinesse to die in the Lord than to die for the Lord If a man die for the Lord and be not in the Lord he is not blessed in his death A man may die for the Lords cause and not for the Lords sake but out of vain-glory This is hinted by the Apostle Though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing If I do it not out of love to God but out of love to my selfe and mine own praise it is nothing worth But he that dyeth in the Lord is certainly blessed The only use I shall make of this is to beseech the New Testament Saints to follow this Old Testament copy and patterne You have been often taught how to live well give me leave to teach you this day how to dye well It is not long but you must all die Let it be your care that when you come to die you may die in the faith of the Lord Jesus There is a double faith in which you must labour to die In fide quae creditur quâ creditur 1. In the true doctrine of faith 2. In the saving grace of faith 1. In the true doctrine of faith For there are damnable doctrines as well as damnable practices There are doctrines of Devils as well as works of Devils A man may go to hell for heresie as well as ●or iniquity The Scripture tells us of some opinions which subvert the soul and overthrow the faith which T●rtullian calls doctrines devouring a mans salvation and the cankers of Christian Religion And therefore let it be your care to avoid all soul-subverting doctrines to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints and to hold fast the ancient Catholick and Apostolical faith Now if you ask me in what Religion I would have you to die I shall quickly returne an answer without the least haesitation In the true Christian Protestant reformed Religion This is via tuta ad vitam aeternam A safe way unto eternal life as a learned Knight hath sufficiently made known to the world my soul for yours he that dies in this Religion wants nothing in point of doctrine necessary to salvation For it is built wholly only upon the Scriptures It is purely Apostolical and teacheth us to deny ungodliness and all worldly lusts and to live godly soberly and righteously in this present world It requires us to beleeve in Christ for justification and to manifest the truth of our faith by our holinesse towards God and our righteousnesse mercy and charity towards our neighbour And when we have done all to account our selves but unprofitable servants and to trust only to the merits of Christ for salvation It hath been sealed by the blood of many Martyrs and he that professeth it and liveth according to the directions of it may die with a tribunal-proofe confidence of everlasting salvation Let us therefore be stedfast and unmoveable in this faith and take heed of the Arrian and Socinian heresies which unchristianize a man and of all doctrines that are contrary to godliness which drown the soul in perdition and destruction Let us abhorre the heresie Idolatry and tyranny of the Romish Synagogue alwaies remembring that sad text If any man worship the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out witbout mixture into the cup of his indignation and he shall be tormented with ●●re and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb Let us be sure that when we come to die we may be able to say with the Apostle Paul I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith Though I have lost my liberty wealth and honours yet I have kept the faith And with that Reverend Bishop I can deny my selfe my estate my reputation but I cannot deny my faith 2. In the saving grace of faith He that dieth with faith in Christ shall certainly go to live in heaven with Christ He that dieth embracing Christ shall go from Christ to Christ from Christ by grace to Christ in glory But then you must be sure that this faith be a true justifying-faith A heart-purifying sanctifying and world-overcoming faith A painted faith will never bring you to a real heaven A dead faith will never please a living God Faith without works will send a man merrily

strange Country These all That is all those who lived in the second world after the flood Abraham and Sarah Isaac and Jacob the Husband and the Wife the Father the Son and the Grandchild These all 2. The things mentioned concerning these persons 1. It is said they dyed These all dyed {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Though they lived long and many score of years longer than we now do yet they dyed at last Though they were very godly and religious persons though very noble and honourable persons yet they dyed These all dyed 2. It is said That they dyed in faith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} They died according to the faith in which they lived {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is here put for {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as ver. 9. 11 17. They died according to the faith that is in the faith in ●ide seu ●ide seu per fidem If you would know what this faith was in which they died you must take notice of what followeth in the text not having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were perswaded of them and embraced them and confessed that c. God had promised that the Messias should come of their seed and that in him all the nations of the world should be blessed God had promised that he would give them the land of Canaun and not only an earthly but an heavenly Canuan Now all these died perswaded of the truth of these promises embracing or as the Greek word signifieth kissing them They saw them afar off and beleeved them Even as a Mariner that hath been long at sea when he seeth afar off the desired haven claps his hands and skips for joy So did these holy men By the prospective glasse of faith they saw the performance of that which came not to passe till foure hundred years after and rejoyced in it as if already fulfilled They died in the faith of the Messias beleeving not only that he should come in the flesh but expecting salvation and life everlasting by him only They died perswaded of salvation by Christ and embracing saluting and kissing the Lord Jesus They died in the faith of the promised land of Canaan and they died looking waiting and resting upon God in Christ for a better country which is an heavenly ver. 16. In a word they died beleeving they should go to that City which hath foundations whose builder and maker is God ver. 10. This was that blessed happy and noble close and end of daies which these godly and honourable Patriarks made These all dyed in faith From the words thus expounded I shall gather these following inferences Doctrine 1. That though a man liveth never so long yet he must die at last These all dyed though they lived long Abraham lived one hundred seventy five years Isaac one hundred eightie Jacob one hundred fourtie seven and yet died at last Before the flood some lived seven hundred others eight hundred others nine hundred years but it is added as the common Epitaph of them all Mortuus est he dyed Gen. 5. 8 14 17 20 31. Death is the haven of every man whether King or beggar rich or poor Death is the gulfe which will swallow us all up Length of time cannot prescribe against death The longest day will have a night and the longest life a death This life is nothing else but prolixitas mortis as one saith or tendentia ad mortem A lingring kind of death or a pacing or journeying to death Some have a longer journy than others but all must come to their journies end at last There is a statute in heaven for it Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed for all men once to dye And death is called the house appointed for all living Job 30. 23. And the way of all the earth 1 King 2. 2. All flesh is grass Isa. 40. 6. Now then if they who lived so long died at last much more must we who are dwarfes in years in comparison of them and who are nearer death when first borne than some of them were when an hundred years old Let me beseech you frequently solemnly and seriously to consider That though we live never so long and labour by physick and temperate diet and wholesome aire to prolong our lives yet we must die at last As the King of Persia told Constantine the Emperour when he had shewed him all the wealth of Rome These are indeed saith he wonderful things which you shew me but I plainiy see that as in Persia so in Rome also men are subject to death For dust we all are and to dust we must all returne We must say to corruption thou art my Father and to the worme thou art my Mother and my sister We have here no abiding City As we had a day to come into the world so we shall have a day to go out of it The nature of man is wonderful prone to dreame of an eternal abode and of a lasting happiness here upon earth Saint Austin tells us of certain hereticks called Aeternales because they held the world to be eternal We have many such Eternalists who phancy to themselves a kind of eternitie here upon earth and are ready to say with the rich foole in the Gospel Soul take thy ease eat drink and be merry thou hast goods laid up for many years and in the mean time forget what God said to him Thou foole this night thy soul shall be required of thee then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided It is said of wicked men Psalm 49. 11. Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever and their dwelling places to all generations c. They are ashamed to utter any such thing but their inward thought is that they shall abide for ever Then it followeth ver. 13. This their way is their folly yet their posteritie approve their sayings Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not c. Though he thinks he shall abide yet neither he nor his heires shall be continued but he shall be like the beasts that perish Therefore we had all need to pray Davids prayer Lord make me to know mine end and the measure of my dayes what it is that I may know how fraile I am There are few who know practically and applicatively how fraile they are Most men say they are mortal magis usu quam sensu more out of custome than feeling for they live as if their lives were riveted upon eternitie and as if they should never come to a reckoning Heu vivunt homines tanquam mors nulla sequatur Aut velut infernus fabula vana foret Let us supplicate unto God That he would teach us effectually to remember our frailtie and to consider that there will come a dying time and that it

to hell instead of lifting him up to heaven It is faith unfaigned the faith of Gods elect the faith which worketh by lov● which will make the houre of death desireable and comfortable And let me adde That you must not only labour to die with a true faith but with a full assurance of faith not only to die bel●eving but fully assured that your faith is of a right stamp This is a heaven upon earth This will put you into heaven before you come to heaven This will cause you to die rejoycingly and triumphantly as Stephen did when he saw the heavens opened and Christ standing at the right hand of God ready to receive him And as old Simeon did with Christ in your spiritual armes and singing a Nunc dimittis Now Lord let thy servant depart in peace for mine eyes have seen thy salvation This then is thy great work O Christian industriously to endeavour that when thou comest to die thou mayest die in the true doctrine and true grace of faith and in the full assurance of faith that so thou mayst have an abundant entrance into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ But what must I do that I may be able to make this gallant and noble end He that would die in the faith must first live in the faith For if you observe it it is not said in the text that all without limitation died in faith But all these that is all those who lived in the faith died in the same faith in which they lived These blessed Patriarks had not their faith to get when they came to die but they had got it in health They lived a holy life and died a happy death Life and death for the most part are like the voyce and the echo the body and the shadow Such as the voyce is such is the echo Such as the body is such is the shadow Qualis vita finis ita If we would die happily we must live holily If we would die gloriously we must live graciously If we would go to Christ when we die we must get into Christ while we live If we would die with assurance we must while we live labour to get assurance Woe be to those who have their faith to get when they are dying that begin to amend their lives when they are putting an end to them Woe be to those who begin to serve God when they can do him no service That begin to live when they are ceasing to live And sad is the condition of those who have their evidences and comforts to seek when they are going out of the world And yet I will not absolutely deny as some rashly do but that it is possible for a man to live a thiefe and die a Saint to live wickedly and to repent at death We have one and but one example of this But this is not Gods ordinary way and if I had ten thousand souls I would not adventure one of them upon a death-bed repentance We must not think to dance with the Devil all day and to sup with Christ at night To live all our life-time in Dalilah's lap and to go to Abrahams bosome when we die The ordinary way to die well is to live well In a word If you would die as Abraham did you must live as he did you must imitate Abrahams faith obedience and heavenly-mindednesse If you would die as Jacob did you must wrastle with God in prayer as he did If you would partake of their happinesse when you die you must be followers of their holinesse while you live This is the fifth inference Doctrine 6. That it is an unvaluable blessing when husband and wife Father and child and childs child live and die in the true faith These all died in faith Not only some of them but all Abraham the husband and Sarah his wife Abraham the Father and Isaac his Son and Jacob his Grand-child All these died in the faith Behold a true noble blood a holy kindred a blessed generation Worthy is Abraham of all honour who was the roote of such a noble and blessed brood And worthy are Isaac and Jacob of so good a Father who stained not their blood by forsaking their faith but held it as they received it and lived and died in the true faith handed to them by their Father Behold here you that are great in place and birth behold I say wherein true Nobility and Gentry doth consist and what is the fountaine of all true honour It is to live and die in the true faith In this faith Abraham died and Isaac his son and heire did not only inherit his fathers estate but his fathers Religion also And Jacob the Grand-child follows both his father and grand-father and dieth in the same faith with them Behold here Jacob a true Gentleman in blood His holinesse and Religion is in the third descent Let great men learn to adorne their Gentility and Nobility with these ensignes of true honour It is a rare blessing when there is a succession of godlinesse in a family when godlinesse is entailed upon children and childrens children When a man can say to God as Moses O God thou art my God and my Fathers God and my Grand-Fathers God There are many families in which there is a succession of drunkards swearers and adulterers c. in which sin and iniquity is entailed of whom it may be said my father was an adulterer a drunkard a scoffer at Religion so was my grand-father and so am I This is a sad pedegree O labour for a holy succession Let Parents write a faire copy to their children let them live and dye in the true faith and let children learne to follow such a copy Let husbands be patternes and examples of godlinesse to their wives and let wives follow their good examples Let wives imitate Sarah Parents Abraham and children Isaac and Jacob Let us and ours so live that when we come to die it may be said of us not that we died in our sins but as it is in the text that we died in the faith These all died in faith I have done with the text But there is another text of which I must of necessity speak something And that is concerning the sad occasion of our meeting here this day Give me leave to speak to you in the language of David concerning Abner Know you not that there is a Prince a great man fallen this day in Israel and in the language of the children of Seth concerning Abraham A Lord and a mighty Prince is this day to be buried One who had so much worth and excellency in him that whosoever will undertake to speak of him needs not feare as Nazianzen saith of his sister Gorgonia least he should spea● too much but rather least he should speak too little and by coming so farre beneath his due deserts should dispraise him even